https://phys.org/news/2018-07-tropical-forests-hinder-climate-effort.html > This could make it impossible to meet the main goal in the Paris Agreement of 2015, which seeks to limit the global temperature rise to 2C compared with pre-industrial levels. > Researchers estimate that tropical forests currently take in as much carbon from the atmosphere through growth as they generate through deforestation—the loss of forest to commercial activities—and degradation—the removal of trees for timber or fuel.